The General Optical Council (Registration Appeals Rules) Order of Council 2005

Additional information required from individual applicants for restoration of registration as an optometrist or a dispensing optician

6.  In addition to the information required under rule 4, an application for restoration of an applicant’s registration as an optometrist or a dispensing optician shall also include—

(a) a contact address for the applicant;

(b) an indication of whether or not the contact address provided under paragraph (a) is a proposed practice address and–

(i) if it is, either the trading name under which the applicant proposes to practise at that address or the name under which his employer undertakes the business of an optometrist or a dispensing optician (or both); and

(ii) all proposed practice addresses of the applicant, other than the contact address, together with, in each case, an indication of the trading name, if any, under which the applicant proposes to practise at each address;

(c) evidence that, if his name were to be entered in the register, he would be covered by an insurance policy for the purposes of complying with section 10A (insurance for individual registrants and persons applying for their name to be registered)(1); and

(d) a copy of that policy of insurance or a means of identifying the terms of the policy that will cover him, together with any number the policy has and its expiry date.

(1)

Section 10A was inserted by S.I. 2005/848.